Railway-track structure.



v PatentedSept. 30, |902.

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EDWARD B. ENTWISLE, OF JOIINSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE LORAIN STEEL COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILWAY-TRACK STRUCTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,975, dated September 30, 1902. Application filed February 8, l 902. Serial No. 93,229. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: The plate E is seated on a bed of spelter or Beit known that I, EDWARD B. ENTWISLE, other similar material, (shown at H.) It is of Johnstown, in the county of Cambria and formed at one edge with a lip e', which fits State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new underneath the head of the rail F, and at its 5 and useful Improvement in Railway-Track other side with a lip c2, between which and Structures, of which the following is a full, the overhanging wall of the flangeaare driven clear, and exact description, reference being securing-wedges I, which are seated through had to the accompanying drawings, which the recesses I and are afterward covered in form a part of this specification.v by spelter, as shown. The plate can be read- 6o ro My invention has relation to certain new ily removed at any time by cutting out the and useful improvements in railway-track spelter and removing the wedges or by restructures, and more particularly to that class moving the guard-rail F. of such structures known as switch mates, While I have shown the rail members B,.O, andis designed to provideamate ofsimpleand and I) as consisting of pieces of T-rail, it is l5 durable construction in which those portions obvious that girder-rails may be employed of the track=surfaces subject to the greatest instead of suitably cutting or' planing off the wear are formed on a hard-metal plate, which flanges of the members O and D where they is removably seated in the structure in anovel enter the body A. manner. Having thus described my invention, what 7o 2o With this object in view the invention con- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters sists in the novel construction and combina- Patent, is tion of parts, all as hereinafter described, and 1. In a switch mate, a body portion formed pointed outin the appended claims, reference of cast metal, rail members extending therebeing had to the accompanying drawings, in from for connection with the adjacent trackz 5 whichrails, a guard-rail secured to one side of said Figure lis a plan View of a switch mate embody portion, and a hard-metal track-surfaced bodying my invention, and Fig. 2 .is a transplate seated on said-body portion between a Verse section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. flange thereof and the said guard-rail.

In the figures the letter A designates the 2. In a switch mate, a body portion of cast 8o 3o body portion of the structures, and B, C, and metal having an upwardly-extending flange D the rail-member extensions thereof for conat one side, a guard-rail secured to the opponeotion to the adjacent main and branch track site side of said body portion, and a hardrails. In the manufacture of the structure metal track-surfaced plate seated between these rail members are placed in the mold in said flange and guard-rails. 35 which the body portion A is to be cast, and 3. In a switch mate, a body portion of cast their end portions are embedded in the castmetal having an upwardly-extending ilange ing in the usual manner. at one side, a guard-rail removably secured Oored in the upper surface of the body A to the opposite side of said body portion, and is a recess or seat for a plate E, of manganese a hard-metal track-surfaced plate seated be- 9o 4o steel or other suitable hard steel or steel alloy, tween said ange and guard-rail.

on which is formed the point c and the adja- 4. The herein-described switch mate, concent track-surfaces of the structure. One of sisting of the body A ot' cast metal, having the side walls of this recess or seat is formed the side iiange a, the rail members cast into by an overhanging iiange a of the body A; said body portion, the guard-rail secured 45 buttheotherside wallinstead of beingformed thereto, and the hard-metal track-surfaced by a similar iiange, as is customary in such plate seated between the said iange and the structures, is formed by a section E of T-rail, guard-rail, and provided with a lip which which also acts as a guard-rail and which is tits under the head of the said rail.

secured to the body A by means of through- 5. A track structure, consisting of a body roo 5o bolts G, the seats for which are cored in the of cast metal having rail-member extensions casting. for connection with the adjacent rails of main and branch tracks, a guard-railremov- In testimony whereof Ihave affixed my sigably secured to one side of said body, and a nature in presence of two Witnesses. hardened track-surfaced plate Whose ends abut the inner ends of said extensions, and which is seated in a recess or pocket, one Wall of which is formed by the removable guardrail.

EDWARD B. ENTWISLE.

Witnesses:

CORA G. COX, H. W. SMITH. 

